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decidedly yellow, of a pale or whitish shade ; streaked finely with dark 

 brown most densely from base to outer edge of the discal band, beyond 

 which the streaks permit the groimd color to show more distinctly than 

 elsewhere ; in the darker examples the hind margin is washed with brown 

 which shades gradually into the lighter area ; the disk crossed by a broad 

 irregular band, edged on either side by black 3 the outer border of this 

 band begins on costa just above the angle and its general course is sinu- 

 ous, with a slight angular incision on the sub-costal nervure, and a 

 rounded one on lower median interspace, the extreme curve lying just 

 outside the nervule ; the outline of basal side of the band is a double 

 curve, being at first convex towards base of wing, and on sub-costal, then 

 a deep sinus on median, after which to inner margin wavy ; the posterior 

 half of the band is about half the width of the other part ; on both wings 

 the ocelli are repeated, and usually the lower on primaries is pupillated ; 

 in a line with the ocellus on secondaries is a series of white points across 

 the wing, one on each interspace, but these are often wanting. 



Body blackish-brown above, thorax black beneath, gi ay-brown over 

 abdomen ; legs black, the tibiae and tarsi brown ; palpi black ; antennae 

 reddish-brown finely ringed with red ; club yellow-brown, tipped ferru- 

 ginous. 



Var. a. — The entire upper side of primaries dark brown except a 

 space beyond the disk which includes the ocelli, this being of the usual 

 shade, and like secondaries ; and it is therefore like the band in Satyrus, 

 as ^S'. Alope ; on under side the ocellar band is yellowish, and the dark 

 area is limited on it in a wavy dark line which projects in an angle upon 

 upper branch of median ; the cell much streaked. 



FEMALE unknown. 



From 12 males, taken by Professor John Macoun, Botanist to the 

 Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, at Lake Nipigon, 1884, 

 and in honor of whom I name the species. It is remarkable for the 

 absence of the broad sexual brown-black band on fore wing, which is so 

 conspicuous a feature of the other members of the group. It forms the 

 connecting link between the Californica group and that of Chryxus. The 

 upper surface of the Var. A is very like many male Chryxus in the 

 arrangement of the light and dark shades of color. In general the male 

 Macounii has the coloring of female Californica. 



